Advice on this Board

[E-Stat]

Okay, but what IS high resolution? You haven't yet defined that in a reliably repeatable way as yet after all the above.-Bruce

High resolution audio components are those that bring the listener closer to the musical truth. Although my musical tastes are varied and include a fair mix of popular synthesized, multitracked, and otherwise processed recordings, they must be excluded from such an evaluation because there is no musical truth to them. Instead, one must rely on unamplifed music - of most any genre, be it classical, jazz, blue grass, choral, etc. While there are certainly differences in the various musical halls, seating positions, etc., an oboe will nevertheless always sound like an oboe. A piano will always sound like a piano.

Of my two systems, my main one can, using the best recordings, begin to truly replicate the sound of a piano. It does so in timbre, image height and width, and in level. I do have some ready reference in this matter as my wife frequently plays her baby grand in the living room. My modest garage system, however, using Large Advents driven by a NAD integrated (using 12 gauge speaker wire and generic cables) never really sounds like a piano. Instead, it sounds like a good hi-fi. It is incapable of creating a convincing artifice of the musical event.

I know that such subjective assertions are not easily reduced to a set of numbers. I would like nothing more than to find a set of numbers that actually is of value.

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